POV, CGI

Just write what the camera sees. Let the filmmakers decide how to shoot the film.

Although they will go some way toward teaching you how to write scripts, those screenplays you're reading online are unlikely to be spec scripts. Best ignore any technical labels you find, and study the writing styles instead.

-Derek

avid-dreamer said:

Ok guys...needing some advice here again. I am presently looking a a list of screenplay abbreviations. I know that abbreviations like M.O.S, SPFX and SFX must be left to the person directing the work.
I was wondering if abbreviations live P.O.V and C.G.I. should be left up to producers aswell. Some of the screen plays I have viewed online have such abbreviations in them (example Bourne Identity and Batman Begins) and some do not.
Thanks for the help!!

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Other than POV, which I use on occasion, I don't use any of those other abbreviations, because that's really not my business. I don't know how a particular image is going to be executed when I write it.

I can write - EXT. - SHIP AT SEA - DAY

Who knows what that's going to be. Maybe they'll shoot a real ship. Maybe it'll be a miniature. Maybe it'll be CGI, maybe, depending on the shot it might be any or all of the above -- what do I care?

At the stage of the game at which I'm working, it's not relevant. It's not something I should be referencing.

NMS

I wouldn't use C.G.I. That's a technical specification for a filmmaking process. P.O.V. I use. It specifies the point of view of the audience. M.O.S. I would use in certain situations. In a shot or a scene where you don't want to have any sound. Such as a dream possibly. Or a memory. Like the beginning of "They Shoot Horses, Don't they?".

EXT. GRASS FIELD - DAY

M.O.S.

A HORSE runs through a deep, wild, golden-grass field in SLOWED MOTION. Sunlight dances on its coat. It stumbles. And falls in a tumbling cloud of dust.